What Actually Happened in the Last Quarter of the 1967 Grand Final — in Order?
The last quarter of the 1967 Grand Final survives as a handful of Richmond images: Ronaldson from the boundary, Hart in the air, Bartlett snapping, Swift on the line. Memory has made the sequence feel almost inevitable.
But the quarter itself was anything but inevitable. There were stoppages, missed chances, repeated pressure, tired legs and moments when one kick could have rearranged the story entirely. The famous acts matter. So does everything that happened between them.
What was the actual order of the final term? Where did Geelong threaten to take control? Which Richmond moments only became famous because of what had happened seconds earlier? And how different does the quarter look when the mythology is put back into football time?
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